A terrific night of music at Pies and Pints. Tom decided to make the night a KBCS fund raiser in support of the local radio station’s weekly show, “Bluegrass Ramble“. With Johnny out of town, Brad Carter joined in on Banjo, with Matt Heron again sitting in on Fiddle. Brad and Matt play together quite a bit, and their presence immediately doubled or tripled our song list. Later in the evening, Spoonshine’s Jacob Navarro showed up. In town for a recording session, he joined us on the last set, adding some hot geetar. Pandi, of the Gloria Darlings, finished off the night with a couple solo tunes.

All in all some really hot music and we made a good amount of cash that will be donated to KBCS. KBCS does a great job of supporting local music and we’re proud to put in our 2 cents.

Our hearts and thoughts are with the Pies and Pints staff.

0 Comments | Posted by Michael Spaly in Shows

Once a semi-monthly gig for Creeping Time, June 11 was only our second show at Conor Byrne in 2010. With busy schedules and time spent focusing on our recording, our live schedule has been pretty sleepy. While we’re hitting new strides in the studio,coming up with some really cool arrangements of our tunes, we have not had a regular rehearsal space for some time. Though it was a lot of fun to play and it’s always great to play together, but it may be time to hit the woodshed and re-tighten the screws on our live show.

Opening up the night was Tim Cowan, a Portland based singer-songwriter who focuses on nashville-style country. Really nice melodies and those fun country plays-on-words. Anacortes’ Spoonshine followed. I was excited to see their new lineup with core members Jacob Navarro and Bill Cook adding rhythm guitar and a full-on rock drummer. All in all a really great direction for these guys. Definitely keep your eyes peeled as they’ll be hitting bigger markets soon enough…

0 Comments | Posted by Michael Spaly in Shows

Really great night at Pies and Pints.

I forgot my fiddle and no other fiddlers had been confirmed as coming out. I asked Johnny and Tom about a fiddler I’ve been seeing around town the last couple weeks. He looks a lot like Charlie Beck, from the Tall Boys, and I had recently seen him walking around our neighborhood, so I thought he may be close by. Turns out they both know him and within 10 minutes Tom had phoned him and confirmed he was on his way down. Avi ended up sitting in with us for the first set and lighting it up. He’s in town for a couple weeks while deciding where to move. Seattle is in the running…

The remainder of the night held multiple lineups, including Robert Fulwiler on upright bass, Tim Wetmueller and Milly “Racoon” on fiddle, and Dizzy on various instruments. Pat, Tom, Johnny, and myself held down the core. Lots of good tunes, harmonies that continue to tighten up, and some rowdiness from the crowd. An overall nice combo for a Sunday night.

0 Comments | Posted by Michael Spaly in Shows

I was expecting a big night at Pies and Pints. Martin Luther King Jr weekend was big due to the Monday holiday and I was expecting the same. When I showed up for setup, there were not a lot of people and it was looking like a slow one. However, as the sun went down and the music started, people started steadily rolling in until the place eventually filled up. Nettle Honey started things out with about an hour of tunes. I thought they sounded great and caught myself singing along (after hearing the tunes from their latest record about 150 times each). They may have been tired from a long weekend of busking at Folklife, but it didn’t show. Ken Nottingham came down with his upright bass and him, Tom,and myself played a Creeping Time-esque second set, sharing Ken and my tunes and wrangling Matt Heron and Johnny Fitzpatrick along for the ride. Ended the night with some ‘hot bluegrass’ with the standard lineup. Overall a really great night, even though Tom was admittedly drunk before playing a note ;)

0 Comments | Posted by Michael Spaly in Shows

Folklife weekend and I got to play with the Harborrats on the first day. We hit the Fountain Lawn stage with our 7 piece lineup and Sam really lit up the crowd. Sam had the set nailed and had his head on real straight. Throughout the entire set the crowd kept growing and growing. I’ve played with with several acts at the festival in the past, and this was definitely the most crowd pleasing (sorry other bands). Per usual with festival gigs, the stage sound was a little shoddy, but overall Sam’s put together a really nice lineup and I think we made it work really well.

It was fairly cold and wet, and definitely not the size of crowd that will surely be there on Sunday. However, the pic below shows a glimpse of what I love about Folklife. Even with the chill and dampness there were plenty of kids soaking themselves in the fountain.

0 Comments | Posted by Michael Spaly in Shows